First WRC-event in the Middle East – get ready for Jordan Rally!

It’s rally-week again, and for the first time there will be a WRC-event in the Middle East. Jordan is hosting the rally and Rally HQ is based by the banks of the Dead Sea – 408 mtrs below sealevel. The surface is hard-packed gravel and the stages are run trough the desert surrounding the Dead Sea. Stages are expected to be tricky with lot of crests. They are wide, but yet it is difficult to read the surface and know how much to push.

It is the first time for a WRC-event, but not the first time in Jordan for Solberg and Mills. Both did the recce there in May 2007, and Phil also won the 1994 Rally of Jordan together with Mohammed Bin Sulayem.

55 cars will contest the 22 stages over three days. Most of the stages are quite short going from 9k’s to 20k’s, but the real challenge will be on the final day, when the rally concludes with the 41 kilometres long Jordan River Stage.

Itinerary (Jordan is GMT 2)

Friday, 25. April

0819 SS1 Suwayma 1 13,03km
0853 SS2 Mahes 1 20,00km
0938 SS3 Mount Nebo 1 11,10km
1025 SS4 Mal’n 1 14,46km
 Service
1235 SS5 Suwayma 2 13,03km
1309 SS6 Mahes 2 20,00km
1354 SS7 Mount Nebo 2 11,10km
1441 SS8 Mal’n 2 13,46km
 Service

Saturday, 26. April

0853 SS1 Turki 1 14,13km
0921 SS2 Erak Elamir 1 12,47km
1024 SS3 Shuna 1 15,19km
1105 SS12 Baptism Site 1 13,13km
 Service
1306 SS13 Turki 2 14,13km
1334 SS14 Erak Alamir 2 12,47km
1437 SS15 Shuna 2 15,19km
1518 SS16 Baptism Site 2 13,13km
 Service

Sunday, 27. April

0737 SS17 Kafrain 1 16,49km
0810 SS18 Wadi Shuelb 9,18km
0913 SS19 Jordan River 41,45km
 Service
1130 SS20 Kafrain 2 16,49km
1203 SS21 Wadi Shuelb 9,18km
1306 SS22 Jordan River 41,45km

Read more about the Jordan Rally on www.jordanrally.com, and follow the action on www.pettersolberg.com and www.wrc.com.